C road crash in Merton SM4 on 11 September 2002 at 17:20 involving a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle and a lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Merton at 17:20 on Wednesday 11 September 2002. The 35-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2002
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSF 600 and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38871, longitude -0.18392, in the SM4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Helier West, Sutton, SM5 1AJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201VW00465
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2003.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Merton, 22 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301VW00043
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in Merton, 2 February 1991
10 m awayRef 199101VW00082
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Merton, 6 November 1999
14 m awayRef 199901VW00675
Serious
Honda crash on a C road in Merton, 6 August 1998
14 m awayRef 199801VW00475
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Sutton, 21 October 1993
20 m awayRef 199301ZP01024
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Merton, 16 September 1983
22 m awayRef 1983010VW0606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200201VW00465 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2002.